NP or the possibilities of a life / curated by locus athens
Nikos Alexiou, Athanasios Argianas, Natasa Biza, Lizzie Calligas, Anastasia Douka, Farida El Gazzar, George Hadjimichalis, Vassos Kapandais, Kyriakos Krokos, Michael Michaeledes, Kosmas Nikolaou, Nina Papakonstantinou, Zoë Paul, Lucas Samaras, Anastasia Tzakou as well as objects from various collections
Architectural Design: AREA , Architecture Research Athens
address: Tsami Karatasou 51, Koukaki
Dates: 15th May – 30th June
Exhibition times: Wednesday – Friday 17.00 – 21.00, Saturday 12.00 – 16.00
Dates: 15th May – 30th June
Exhibition times: Wednesday – Friday 17.00 – 21.00, Saturday 12.00 – 16.00
Kyriakos Krokos, Publishing house office building (unrealised project), 1991, Cardboard maquette, 21 x 24,5 x 14 cm.,Courtesy Neohellenic Architecture Archives, Benaki Museum
George Hadjimichalis, Small Archive of Images (001-100) 1986/1996-1999,From the Archives of “Workshop of projects and images in crisis”, 1986/1996-1999,Wooden archive cabinet on iron base / 100 drawers with mixed technique images, 108,5 x 187 x 34 cm.Courtesy Konstantinos Papageorgiou
Nikos Alexiou, Fear (top view), 2000,Print on matt film, 130 x 127 cm.,Courtesy The Infinite Garden. Nikos Alexiou Archives
Farida El-Gazzar, Untitled (6, 32, 37, 40), 2011, Acrylic on paper 24.5 x 32.5 cm., Courtesy Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki
A collection of 15 Embroidery Samplers from Fez Morocco 1920’s-1960’s, Thread on fabric (variable dimensions),Courtesy Collection Petros Petropoulos, Paris / Spetses & Nina Papaconstantinou, Ma Chère Maman, 2014, Five drawings with pin-pricks on Japanese paper (dimensions variable), Courtesy Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki
Kosmas Nikolaou, I Was Given Instructions But I Couldn’t Even Read Them, 2017, Installation (clay pots, and sound recording of a diary), (variable dimensions), Courtesy the artist
Lucas Samaras, Stiff Box no 8, 1971, Acier cor-ten 45 x 35 x 45 cm., Courtesy Private Collection
Lizzie Calligas, Exercises, Afternoon, 2016-2017, Water Colour (variable dimensions),Courtesy the artist
Zoë Paul, Mazeuvie (series 1.1), 2013, Wool and thread on found fridge grill, 56 x 56 x 1 cm., Courtesy The Breeder, Athens

Anastasia Tzakou, Unititled, circa 1970, Oil pastel on canvas, Courtesy Tzakos family & 10 Tsikalia (Earthen-ware cooking pots), 1930-1980, Earthenware pots “Tsoukalia” (variable dimensions), Courtesy Collection of Yorgos Kyriakopoulos
Athanasios Argianas, Sea a zero, See zero, Zero seas, To see to zero,To sea two zeros, 2017, electroformed copper-plated urethane, dust of foraged red-oyster shell, approx. 35 x 45 cm., Courtesy the artist & Natasa Biza, The Encounter & Demetra, 2017, Two publications, 17 x 23 cm., Printed photograph, dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist
Natasa Biza
Natasa Biza
Anastasia Douka, The sign of the palm, 2017, Jewellery by Ηaris Doukas, soap, glass, wood, 120 x 90 x 75 cm. -under the glass sits the time that my father spends making-Courtesy the artist
Nikos Alexiou, Fear Polaroid (1,26,32,38), 2001, Matte film (polaroid print), 66 x 64 cm., Courtesy Yerassimos Yannopoulos
Vassos Kapandais, Head, c.1971, Bronze, 9 cm.& Snake (date unknown), Bronze, 42 cm.,Courtesy Kapandais family
Lizzie Calligas, Exercises, Patience, 2016-2017,Watercolour on paper (variable dimensions), Courtesy the artist
photographs by Dimitris Parthimos
NP or the possibilities of a life is an exhibition whose starting point is the life of an ordinary man with an extraordinary collection. NP or the possibilities of a life s a biographical exhibition; however, more than that, it talks about solitary visions, imaginations unleashed and the limitless possibilities of creating worlds, as well as the impossibility of containing them.
The exhibition suggests multiple systems for structuring the chaos of one’s mind and of creating a taxonomy of objects (as ordered as it is hapless). Art works, handcrafted heirlooms, notes, working books (and other collectibles) are ordered and re-ordered, mimicking the love and pathology of holding on to knowledge, things. Entering NP’s universe, we are transported through a series of artists’ visions, projections and collections into a psychological landscape where hierarchies are overturned. Each work leads us on, as each world drifts into another – a labyrinth of thoughts filling us both with solace and quiet despair. The possibilities are limitless.